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We’ve had a lot of patron record problems at the Annex. Just a reminder that if patrons are saying library privileges have expired, it’s quite likely that they are grad students working on their thesis or project but not enrolled in classes. They need to have their advisor or Dept Chair send an email...

Folks, The business students are coming in once again, asking about financial ratios and SIC/NAICS codes. Gina reminds us that there should be three different ratio sources around HF 5681 in the Annex: Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios, RMA Annual Statement Studies, and Troy’s Almanac of Business & Financial ratios. Not all include...

DoIT has increased the maximum number of connections per wireless access point to 200 as of around 1pm this afternoon. Please let Thoreau Lovell know if you continue to get complaints from users that they can’t connect to or are getting disconnected from the wifi network.

Thursday is Welcome Days and the Library Annex 1 is listed as an “Open House” on the University web page. http://www.sfsu.edu/~welcome/openhouse.html Research Computers number 1-16 will be set up all day for visitors to use without providing a login or password. Our current tri-fold pamphlet is available at the Info Desk. Please be aware...

Folks, Many of you may have noticed that NetLibrary was purchased by Ebsco and all of our former NetLibrary eBooks are now linking from the opac into an interface that looks almost identical to Ebsco’s article database interface. Users must now click one additional time on “eBook full text” after arriving on the Ebsco...

New students who have paid their fees but have not yet received their OneCard may bring proof of current registration (paid Bursars receipt, fall class schedule) to HSS 102 and library staff can create a patron record. After that the new student should be able to establish their own PIN number and get remote...

I noted this problem earlier this week but it seems it’s more widespread than previously thought. Manon Williams says that some OPAC records are not displaying availability information or the “Request” button. It seems to be happening with newer versions of web browsers. We’re adding the following message to the initial OPAC search screen:...

LibraryH3lp, our IM provider was still involved in a scheduled weekend upgrade but it appears to be working now through Pidgin (or PC’s) and Adium (for Macs). If you use the Webchat version you’ll notice that it looks a bit different but does work properly. Also, you may notice in the queue a user...

Folks, The business students are coming in asking about financial ratios and SIC/NAICS codes. Gina reminds us that there should be three different ratio sources around HF 5681 in the Annex: Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios, RMA Annual Statement Studies, and Troy’s Almanac of Business & Financial ratios. Not all include all SIC/NAICS...